We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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I want to die painting.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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